I know he was invited and encouraged, and I know he did not choose to go.

I can satisfy you, perhaps, on points which you would little expect; and as to his marriage, I knew all about it at the time.

I was privy to all the fors and againsts; I was the friend to whom he confided his hopes and plans; and though I did not know his wife previously, her inferior situation in society, indeed, rendered that impossible, yet I knew her all her life afterwards, or at least till within the last two years of her life, and can answer any question you may wish to put." "Nay," said Anne, "I have no particular enquiry to make about her.

I have always understood they were not a happy couple.

But I should like to know why, at that time of his life, he should slight my father's acquaintance as he did.